Privacy Policy

Policy

1. Data Controller

The data controller responsible for your personal data is:

Jared Higgins
Data Controller, PupillagePulse
hello@pupillagepulse.co.uk

2. What Data We Collect

Depending on how you use PupillagePulse, we may collect:

• Contact information (e.g. name, email address) when you contact us or create an account.
• Account data (e.g. username, encrypted password).
• User-generated content you post (e.g. forum posts, comments), plus associated metadata.
• Usage data (e.g. pages visited, actions taken, approximate location, device/browser data).
• Cookies and similar technologies for functionality, analytics, and advertising.

3. How We Use Your Data

We use personal data to:

• Provide and operate the website and its features (including accounts and forums).
• Maintain security, prevent abuse, and troubleshoot technical issues.
• Improve content, navigation, and user experience (including analytics).
• Communicate with you (e.g. replies to enquiries, service notices).
• Show advertising and measure performance (including interest-based ads where enabled).
• Use data in aggregated or otherwise lawful forms to understand trends and improve the platform.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Under UK GDPR, we process personal data on one or more lawful bases, including:

• Consent (e.g. where you opt into certain cookies/marketing where required).
• Contract (e.g. to provide account features you request).
• Legal obligation (e.g. responding to lawful requests).
• Legitimate interests (e.g. operating, securing, and improving the platform, and supporting sustainable funding through advertising), balanced against your rights.

5. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising (including Google AdSense)

We use cookies and similar technologies to run the site, understand usage, and support advertising. Third-party advertising partners (including Google) may use cookies to serve ads based on visits to this and/or other websites, where applicable.

You can control cookies through your browser settings and, where provided, on-site consent controls.

6. Commercial Use, Sharing, and Sale of Personal Data

PupillagePulse may use personal data for commercial purposes connected to running and sustaining the platform (for example: advertising, analytics, platform improvement, and measuring audience engagement).

We may also share or sell certain personal data to third parties in limited circumstances, for example to:

• support advertising operations, measurement, and fraud prevention;
• provide analytics, audience insights, or commercial partnerships;
• enable data-driven services or research relevant to legal careers (where lawful).

Where we share or sell personal data, we aim to do so transparently, under appropriate contracts, and with safeguards. We will not knowingly sell personal data of children.

Your choices: where required by law or where we offer controls, you may opt out of certain cookies or advertising features using browser/consent settings. You may also contact us to exercise your data rights (see Section 9).

7. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including operating accounts and maintaining site security, or as required by law. You may request deletion where applicable.

8. International Transfers

Where service providers process data outside the UK, we use appropriate safeguards such as adequacy decisions and/or standard contractual clauses where required.

9. Your Rights

Under UK GDPR, you may have rights to:

• Access your personal data
• Rectify inaccurate data
• Request erasure (in certain circumstances)
• Restrict or object to processing (in certain circumstances)
• Data portability (where applicable)
• Withdraw consent (where processing is based on consent)

To exercise your rights, contact us at: hello@pupillagepulse.co.uk

10. Security

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, or misuse. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect data.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will be posted on this page and the “Last updated” date will be revised accordingly.